Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 12 – December 1992 – Interview: Holly Near

Songwriter Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 9 – September 1994 – Interview: Jeff Buckley

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Table of Contents

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INTERVIEW –

HOLLY NEAR………………………………………………………………………………. 7

Len Chandler interviews an old friend, Holly Near, who has become

quite successful, thank you, by following her own path.

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING –

MATCHING YOUR LYRICS TO THE RIGHT CHORDS……………………….. 11

David Cat Cohen has some valuable information to offer that will

help you choose chords to match the moods of your songs.

SONGWRITERS EXPO 16 –

RECAP………………………………………………………………………………………. 12

We share some highlights in words and pictures.

UPBEAT-

BOOKWORM……………………………………………………………………………… 14

Dan Kimpel gives you a pre\4ew of some new books you might do

well to consider as holiday gifts for your favorite songwriter.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE –

NEW PRO SONG SHOPPING SOFTWARE……………………………………… 16

John Braheny guests in this column to turn you on to a great new

program for both Mac and IBM compatible users that will save you

lots of time keeping track of your pertinent song information and

make your marketing a whole lot easier.

AMUSEMENT -……………………………………………………………………………. 19

Hey, the holidays are on us and it’s time to lighten up. So read this!

LASS NEWS

MEMBER NEWS – NOTEWORTHY – MUSICAL CHAIRS……………………….. 4

News about classes, biz events, where your favorite publishers

and A&R reps are this month, good stuff about our Members

and Pickups.

WEEKLY SHOWCASE SCHEDULE……………………………………………………………………………………….. 6

Cassette Roulette’m (publisher song critiques) and Pitch-A-ThonTm

(producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts).

From the Acting Archivist…

Much like the Songmine columns posted earlier, the archives contain a large collection of Songwriter Musepaper publications. With this posting, I am beginning a project to scan the cover and table of contents of each issue and then OCR (convert the scanned picture to text) the table of contents in order to make it searchable. I don’t yet have the staff necessary to create complete scanned issues of the Museupaper, but if there is interest in a particular article or interview, I can scan that and make it available here.

Douglas E. Welch, douglas@welchwrite.com

Previously in Songwriters Musepaper:

• Songwriter Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 9 – September 1994 – Interview: Jeff Buckley
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 6 – June 1994 – Interview: Richard Thompson
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 7 – July 1995 – Interview: Eddie Money
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 8 – August 1995 – Interview: Hami
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 9 – September 1996 – Interview: Donnie Fritts
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 8 – August 1991 – Interview: Paul Overstreet
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 9 – September 1991 – Interview: Oleta Adams
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 2 – February 1991 – Interview: Mary Chapin-Carpenter
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 10 – October 1994 – Interview: Paula Cole
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 10 – October 1995 – Songwriters Expo 18
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 4 – April 1991 – Interview: Dean Pitchford
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 1 – January 1995 – Interview: Stephanie Davis
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 12 Issue 1 – January 1997 – Interview: Skip Ewing
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 3 Issue 11 – October-November 1988 – Interview: Jules Shear
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 5 – May 1989 – Interview: Lyle Lovett
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 12 December 1996 – Interview: Allan Rich
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 1 – January 1991 – Interview: Fee Waybill
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 1 – January 1989 – Interview: Steve Lukather: Major Guitar Talks Major Songs
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 9 – September 1990 – Interview: Desmond Child
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 4 – April 1992- Interview: Thom Bell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 7 – July 1992 – Interview: Robert Byrne
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 3 – March 1991 – Interview: Alan Silvestri
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 10 – October 1990 – Songwriters Expo 14 – Interview: Glen Ballard
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 10 – October 1991 – Interview: Dewayne Blackwell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 9 –  September 1992 – Songwriters Expo 16 – Interview: Jennifer Warnes
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 10 – October 1993 – Cover: Charles John Quarto and Pete Wasner
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 8 – August 1993 – Cover: Interview: Janis Ian
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 10 – October 1992 – Cover: Interview: John Trudell